All the headlines from our Homeowners Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 4 2012 // Florida regulators have approved a 10.8 percent statewide average homeowners insurance rate increase and a 21.4 percent increase in sinkhole rates for the state-backed property insurer.Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty...
Oct 1 2012 // Quick, heavy rains have led to flash flooding along Connecticut’s shoreline, trapping some residents in their cars, homes and businesses. West Haven Center District Fire Chief James O’Brien tells the New Haven...
Oct 1 2012 // Hurricane Isaac damaged nearly 59,000 homes as the slow-moving storm crawled across southeast Louisiana, according to the latest damage estimates.The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness...
Sep 28 2012 // Florida regulators have approved an average 6.9 percent rate hike for State Farm Florida Insurance Co., which is the insurer’s fifth increase in as many years.The insurer had initially sought an average 14.9 percent...
Sep 27 2012 // Overall customer satisfaction with homeowners insurance companies is the highest in the 12 years J.D. Power and Associates has measured it, driven in part by the practice of bundling auto and homeowners insurance...
Sep 26 2012 // The cost of homeowners insurance claims has been rising rapidly because of the combined effects of rising claim severity and increases in claim frequency, according to an insurance industry report.A new Insurance Research...
Sep 25 2012 // U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has urged Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage lenders to ensure that homeowners receive the...
Sep 25 2012 // Executives of Florida’s state-backed insurer defended a proposed statewide average 11.2 percent increase in homeowners rates as regulators, consumer advocates and other officials questioned the need for the...
Sep 24 2012 // Allstate Corp. is raising insurance rates for 144,000 Louisiana homeowners. The company announced that about 71,000 homeowners insured by Allstate Insurance Co. will see their rates increase by 11.3 percent, while 73,000...
Sep 24 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic.CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
Sep 19 2012 // With dog bite claims accounting for over one-third of all homeowners insurance liability claim dollars in 2011, The Hanover Insurance Group is reminding dog owners to take preventative measures to protect themselves from...
Sep 19 2012 // More than 2 million homes in California face “extreme wildfire hazards,” over 400,000 of which are in Los Angeles County, according to a study issued Wednesday by an insurance industry group.A study by the...
Sep 13 2012 // Allstate Corp. is raising rates for 144,000 Louisiana homeowners who get their insurance coverage from two Allstate companies.The company announced that about 71,000 homeowners insured by Allstate Insurance Co. will see...
Sep 13 2012 // State Farm Lloyds says it intends to increase homeowners rates in Texas by an average 20 percent.The company announced it has submitted a rate filing to the Texas Department of Insurance. The actual premium change for any...
Sep 10 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic.CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
Sep 10 2012 // A new flood coverage suite from Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange, or PURE, is offering high-value homeowners an alternative flood insurance option.PURE Flood Solutions works as an extension of the National Flood...
Sep 10 2012 // Ohio’s 2011 average auto and homeowners insurance rates were again among the most competitive in the United States, according to state insurance regulators. The Ohio Department of Insurance reported that Ohio has the...
Sep 10 2012 // Since 1996, Demotech has rated most of the homegrown Florida domiciled insurers. Our efforts have focused on the assignment of Financial Stability Ratings® (FSRs) to all financially stable insurers, start-ups as well as...
Sep 9 2012 // Texas investigators have opened a criminal probe into how State Farm handled what may turn out to be thousands of insurance claims from Gulf Coast homeowners involving damage from Hurricane Ike in 2008, officials...
Sep 7 2012 // As hurricane season shifts into high gear, the Maryland Insurance Administration is reminding consumers that September is Disaster Preparedness Month.Maryland regulators are advising homeowners to check what their...